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May 8, 2026Linguistics Vanguard

Topicality and asymmetry between pronoun production and interpretation

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HHHeeju Hwang

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Overview

Study reanalyses how topicality affects pronoun production and comprehension in Mandarin, suggesting a production-interpretation asymmetry.

Key Points

  • This research aims to determine whether pronoun production and interpretation are influenced by the same preferences, focusing on topicality effects.
  • Reanalysed two previous studies on Mandarin pronouns.
  • Investigated the impact of grammatical role and topicality on pronoun production.
  • Examined how production and next-mention biases affect pronoun interpretation.
  • Pronoun production was significantly influenced by grammatical role and topicality.
  • Pronoun interpretation was affected by production biases and next-mention biases.
  • Findings provide support for the production-interpretation asymmetry in the Bayesian model.

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Heeju Hwang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd7e90bfa21ec5bbf06c5fhttps://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2025-0148
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